SOCI 2540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Enclosure
22 Feb 2017
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F: belief in or stress on the practical application of a thing, in particular. Wants to understand how the society reproduce itself & have some stability . Particular roles that are operating, practical application, all aspects of society serve as a greater part (more conservative, more interested in the stability) Rapid changes would create problems--needs to be slow and steady. C: a theory propounded by karl marx that claims society is in a state of perpetual conflict due to competition for limited resources. It holds that social order is maintained by domination and power, rather than consensus and conformity. How do we change the society? conflict is the way to change it. Two or more social classes fighting over limited resources, social change comes from people not agreeing on things, The enclosure movement: wealthy farmers bought land from small farmers, then benefited from economies of scale in farming huge tracts of land.
